@ Tracey -- Thank you! The somewhat ironic thing is that I was actually sitting in a beautiful narrow valley between two hills, so there were a lot of interesting perspectives I could have painted, but I just happened to sit down and look up.

@ Elaine and Violet -- thanks very much!
@ Rainey -- I did this in a similar style to a few of my other pieces, where I sketched out the finer branches and twigs in black Micron pen first, then added watercolor on top. I had to be kind of creative that day because I had forgotten my usual brushes, so all I had with me was the tiny folding brush that came in my watercolor set and an old square brush at the bottom of my bag.

@Aimelle, ADIDA, Amy, & Tyler -- thank you very much! I love looking back at this piece because it was such a nice time painting it. @Doug -- Pretty sure I painted this with a Winsor & Newton 12-color beginner set, plus a cerulean blue I had from another beginner set. I enjoy my big paint palette I have now, but sometimes I think I get far more creative when I have fewer colors to work with.